Another potentially historic LHSAA convention begins Wednesday after a year's worth of reaction to the January 2013 vote to separate the football postseason based on schools' admissions policies.

The "select/nonselect" issue, as well as a slew of proposals related to that new system headline the agenda not only for Friday morning's business meeting of the full membership, but also Thursday afternoon's class meetings and the conversation statewide as coaches, athletic directors and principals begin to make their way to Baton Rouge.

"It's going to be an interesting two days," said LHSAA President Todd Guice, principal of Ouachita.

The LHSAA Executive Committee will begin the three-day convention Wednesday afternoon, barring any further changes to the event's schedule as a result of the inclement weather that rolled into the area Tuesday morning.

Wednesday evening will feature a banquet in which eight new members are inducted to the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame.

But the potentially controversial voting will begin to reach a head Thursday afternoon, first with a round table discussion on the issues led by the LHSAA Executive Committee and then in the class meetings, in which each classification of football-playing schools will vote whether to continue or end select/nonselect at its own level.

"That 2:00 meeting on Thursday, the roundtable discussion, will probably be a pretty good indicator of how things are going to go," Guice said.

To this point, many athletic directors, coaches and principals — not to many athletes, parents and fans — remain unsure how the week might end.

All indications are that classes 2A and 3A will proceed with the select/nonselect playoff format, while 1A, 4A and 5A votes could be tougher to read, although multiple coaches from nonselect schools said they don't expect any of the five classifications to vote to rejoin into single postseason brackets.

Still, with many individuals keeping their opinions to themselves and many opinions subject to potential change this week, few votes can be considered guarantees in either direction.

"At the area meeting here in Lafayette, which I'm sure was the same (Executive Director) Kenny (Henderson) gave at all the other places, people asked a couple questions, but they weren't really forthcoming with their opinions," said Teurlings Catholic Principal Mike Boyer, chairman of the School Relations Committee that proposed many of the items on this year's agenda. "It's almost like we took a top 10 list of the reasons why we're in this situation, and as a School Relations Committee, we tried to find viable solution for each to those and answer some of the problems people had."

The potential to end that separation for the playoffs on all levels will be among the items on Friday morning's agenda, as will a slew of other related proposals.

Principals from around the state will vote on a variety of potential changes to schools' athletic attendance zones and eligibility rules related to age and transfers, many of which came from School Relations Committee suggestions.

Possible changes to the classification process as a whole will also come to a vote with such proposals including the option for a school to play in any classification above its enrollment-based level as well as the possibility for a "tournament success factor" to move football teams or teams in all sports — the agenda includes both options — up in classification as a result of their postseason success during the two-year span prior to the reclassification process.

"And I'm sure some things will change once we get in there and some things are amended on the floor," Guice said. "My only concern is that if any of those amendments come up for select/nonselect, that's such a big issue to change something and then only give a principal two or three minutes to think about without it having been brought forward in advance."

Some proposals will affect the voting process itself, including one which would increase the necessary vote required to change the association's constitution from a majority to 2/3rds and one which would allow only schools playing a specific sport to vote on issues pertaining only to that sport.

Potential changes to the season lengths of several sports, the postseason format of soccer, practice regulations for all sports and pitching count limits in baseball as well as the potential addition of eight-man football as an LHSAA sport are also among the items set for Friday's agenda.